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Part VI - Alliance Portfolios and Multilateral Alliances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2019

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Farok J. Contractor  and
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Farok J. Contractor
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Rutgers University, New Jersey
Jeffrey J. Reuer
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Frontiers of Strategic Alliance Research
Negotiating, Structuring and Governing Partnerships
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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